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Left: Joe Mullins, a forensic imaging specialist at NCMEC created this age-enhanced photo in 2006, years after the kidnapping of 11-year-old Jaycee Lee Dugard. (Joe Mullins/NCMEC)

Right: 10/14/2009 Caption: This image provided on October 14, 2009 by People Magazine shows the cover of the October 26, 2009 issue which will be on newstands in the US on October 16, 2009. The cover shows a photo of recently freed kidnapping victim Jaycee Dugard. (HO/AFP/Getty Images)

Mullins studied the photos carefully — measuring the folds on the child’s ears, searching for visible scars and moles, deciding what to do with the hair, tracing the shape of her eyes, nose, mouth and smile — then transformed the small radiant blond girl in pigtails into a grown woman.

At 7:46 a.m. Wednesday morning, John Rabun, vice president of the NCMEC, sent Mullins an e-mail with a link to a newly published photo of that girl — Jaycee Lee Dugard, now 29.

10/14/2009 Caption: This image provided on October 14, 2009 by People Magazine shows the cover of the October 26, 2009 issue which will be on newstands in the US on October 16, 2009. The cover shows a photo of recently freed kidnapping victim Jaycee Dugard. HO/AFP/Getty Images

From snooty society debutantes tossing back the bubbly with Jackie O (their coz) to cackling cat ladies sharing quarters with rabid raccoons and eating foie gras out of tin cans, Big and Little Edie’s rise and fall has captured our imagination (not to mention schadenfreude) for decades, most notably in the Maysleses’ brother’s iconic 1976 documentary “Grey Gardens” and the Broadway musical of the same name. Well, now HBO is once again rebuilding the crumbling Hamptons manse and letting us peek inside at the doyennes of faded glamour, this time with Hollywood titans Drew Barrymore (see extreme glam shot above) and Jessica Lange sliding into the revolutionary costume for today. Check out this review.

A-list British actor and all around debonair dude Rupert Everett is making his Broadway debut in Noel Coward’s blissfully urbane comedy “Blithe Spirit” this spring. Rupert, 49, will star opposite Christine Ebersole, she who was so sublime in “Grey Gardens.” “Blithe Spirit,” which some may remember from the 1945 David Lean picture starring Rex Harrison, spins around a giddy seance with an eccentric medium (is there any other kind?) that invokes the spirit of a dead wife. Let’s just say, this time it’s personal.

Heads up, tabloid mavens. Word on the Rialto is that the entire TomKat household will be moving to New York, with two-year-old baby Suri in tow, when Katie Holmes makes her Broadway debut. The actress best known as the woman who made Cruise jump around on Oprah’s sofa will be starring in a revival of Arthur Miller’s scathing arms industry expose “All My Sons.”